"The greatest and most important branch of the commerce of every nation, is that which is carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country."

"The price of monopoly is upon every occasion the highest which can be got."

"The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable."

"The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, as has already been observed, into …"

"The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives."